Cursing the candle - Gentrification in the rust belt

[Bham1982]

Here is an article about gentrification in D.C. and its effects on public and charter schools.

DC has no relevance to Detroit. The capital of the most important empire in world history has nothing to do with Detroit.

And DC has tiny city limits so gentrification looks stronger than it is. If you took the overall regional core, including inner suburbs, there's still lots of poverty in the DC core.

DC is still a very black city, BTW. More blacks than whites, and almost no whites in the public schools.

[emu steve]

DC has no relevance to Detroit. The capital of the most important empire in world history has nothing to do with Detroit.

And DC has tiny city limits so gentrification looks stronger than it is. If you took the overall regional core, including inner suburbs, there's still lots of poverty in the DC core.

DC is still a very black city, BTW. More blacks than whites, and almost no whites in the public schools.

I'll repeat a point I've made many times.

Detroit and D.C. share an incredible amount of similarities, but D.C. is now about 20 or 25 years ahead of Detroit on its rebirth.

Detroit has the current mayor who is presiding over the rebirth. The D.C. Mayor was Anthony Williams, a financial guy, who took the district from financial disaster and turned it around and now D.C. is the how place to live in the metro area. Pls. go to 14th/U N.W. which was part of the 1968 riots and now the hot spot to live and play.

If someone is interested in a REAL history of the last two decades of D.C. history, pls. read this WaPo article. It isn't some 35,000 view of D.C. It is nuts and bolts understanding of the trans formative change taking place in D.C.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...=.1398056e955a

Please do not believe in the 90s that D.C. was heaven on earth. It was NOT. People turned around a governing disaster.

The hope is that Duggan is Detroit's version of Anthony Williams, a whiz, who is presiding over re-birth.

For Detroit, folks need to be patience and see what the city looks like in 10 -15 years. Detroit is only a few years beyond the bankruptcy and less than 10 from the Great Recession.

The story of Detroit's rebirth is in its first chapter. Many more yet to be written. And HQ2 could add many, many chapters.